🇺🇸 United States
53 timelines involving United States, each dated and sourced.
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Theranos
Theranos was a blood-testing company founded by Elizabeth Holmes in 2003 that said its devices could run a wide range of tests on a few drops of blood. It raised more tha...
Maduro vs Trump
Across two Trump terms the United States moved from sanctions on Nicolás Maduro and his government to recognising a rival interim president, indicting Maduro and, in Janu...
Boeing
Boeing began in Seattle in 1916 as Pacific Aero Products and grew into a major maker of commercial jets and a defence and space contractor. Two fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2...
Rivalries
2Maduro vs Trump
Across two Trump terms the United States moved from sanctions on Nicolás Maduro and his government to recognising a rival interim president, indicting Maduro and, in Janu...
Musk vs Trump
Elon Musk went from quitting Donald Trump's advisory councils in 2017 to endorsing him in 2024 and leading the Department of Government Efficiency. The two split pub...
Court cases
30Ericsson bribery case
The US Department of Justice charged that from 2000 to 2016 Ericsson used third party agents and consultants to pay bribes to government officials and kept false books an...
US v. Google search case
The US Department of Justice and plaintiff states alleged that Google unlawfully maintained monopolies in search and search advertising through exclusive distribution agr...
Carlos Ghosn and Nissan case
Tokyo prosecutors alleged that Ghosn, Kelly and Nissan under-reported Ghosn's compensation in Nissan's securities filings, which AP put at about 9 billion yen o...
Bob Menendez bribery case
Federal prosecutors alleged that from 2018 to 2022 Senator Menendez and his wife accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, including cash, gold bars and a conv...
Theranos and Elizabeth Holmes case
The SEC alleged in 2018 that Theranos, Holmes and former president Ramesh Balwani raised more than $700 million through misleading statements about the company's blo...
Harvey Weinstein criminal cases
The Manhattan District Attorney charged Weinstein with offences including first-degree criminal sexual act, rape in the first and third degrees and predatory sexual assau...
Sam Bankman-Fried FTX case
Federal prosecutors in the Southern District of New York charged that Bankman-Fried defrauded FTX customers and investors and lenders to Alameda Research. The SEC separat...
Glencore bribery case
The US Department of Justice alleged that Glencore entities paid bribes to officials in Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast, Equatorial Guinea, Brazil, Venezuela and the Democ...
Johnson & Johnson talc litigation
Tens of thousands of plaintiffs allege in state and federal lawsuits that Johnson & Johnson talc products, including baby powder, caused ovarian cancer or mesotheliom...
Trump New York business records case
The Manhattan District Attorney alleged that Trump falsified New York business records to conceal damaging information and unlawful activity from voters around the 2016 e...
Alex Jones Sandy Hook lawsuits
Relatives of victims of the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and an FBI agent who responded, alleged that Jones and Free Speech Systems defamed them and inflic...
Mangione prosecutions
UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson was shot and killed in Manhattan on December 4, 2024, and Luigi Mangione was arrested five days later in Pennsylvania. He ...
Goldman Sachs 1MDB case
The US Department of Justice alleged that Goldman, through its agents and employees including former employees Tim Leissner and Roger Ng, conspired with others to pay mor...
SEC v. Musk Twitter disclosure case
The SEC alleged that Musk failed to file a beneficial ownership report by 24 March 2022 after acquiring more than 5 percent of Twitter's common stock, in violation o...
Uber data breach cover-up case
Federal prosecutors in the Northern District of California charged that Sullivan, while the FTC was investigating Uber's data security, concealed a November 2016 bre...
Boeing 737 MAX fraud charge
The US Department of Justice charged Boeing with one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States, alleging that two Boeing 737 MAX technical pilots concealed informa...
Fox, Dominion and Smartmatic lawsuits
Dominion Voting Systems alleged that Fox News Network and its parent Fox Corporation defamed it by broadcasting false claims after the 2020 US election that its machines ...
Purdue Pharma opioid case
The US Department of Justice charged Purdue with conspiracy to defraud the United States and violate the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and with two counts of conspiracy to...
Binance and Changpeng Zhao case
The US Department of Justice alleged that Binance prioritised growth and profits over compliance with US law, failed to maintain an effective anti-money laundering progra...
Sean Combs federal case
The US Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York charged Combs in an indictment unsealed on 17 September 2024 with racketeering conspiracy, sex traffic...
FTC privacy order against Meta
The FTC alleged in 2019 that Facebook violated a 2012 FTC order by deceiving users about their ability to control the privacy of their information. In 2023 the FTC allege...
Kevin Spacey trials
The Crown Prosecution Service authorised charges in May 2022 of sexual offences against three men in London and Gloucestershire between 2005 and 2013, and in November 202...
Wells Fargo fake accounts case
The CFPB found in 2016, and the Justice Department and SEC stated in 2020, that Wells Fargo employees opened deposit and credit card accounts without customer authorisati...
Danske Bank Estonia case
The US Department of Justice alleged that between 2008 and 2016 Danske Bank, through its Estonian branch, defrauded US banks about its anti-money laundering controls and ...
Giuliani defamation case
Freeman and Moss, former Fulton County, Georgia election workers, alleged that Giuliani defamed them by falsely accusing them of election fraud during the 2020 vote count...
George Santos fraud case
Federal prosecutors alleged in a 23-count superseding indictment that Santos filed false campaign finance reports, charged donors' credit cards without authorisation...
Volkswagen diesel emissions case
The US Department of Justice alleged that Volkswagen installed software in about 590,000 US diesel vehicles that detected emissions testing and reduced emissions controls...
McKinsey opioid case
The Justice Department charged in a criminal information in the Western District of Virginia that McKinsey's US entity conspired with Purdue Pharma and others to aid...
Hunter Biden federal cases
Special Counsel David C. Weiss charged that Biden lied about his drug use on a federal firearm purchase form and possessed a gun as a drug user in October 2018, and separ...
Depp v NGN and Depp v Heard
Johnny Depp sued the publisher of The Sun in London over a 2018 article calling him a wife beater and lost in November 2020, when the High Court found the words substanti...
Companies
10Theranos
Theranos was a blood-testing company founded by Elizabeth Holmes in 2003 that said its devices could run a wide range of tests on a few drops of blood. It raised more tha...
Boeing
Boeing began in Seattle in 1916 as Pacific Aero Products and grew into a major maker of commercial jets and a defence and space contractor. Two fatal 737 MAX crashes in 2...
Meta Platforms
Meta began as Facebook, a social network launched by Mark Zuckerberg and classmates in 2004, and went public on Nasdaq in 2012. It bought Instagram and WhatsApp and renam...
Apple
Apple was founded in 1976 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne and went public in 1980. After Jobs returned in 1997 it introduced the iPod, iPhone and iPad, and ...
Silicon Valley Bank
Silicon Valley Bank, founded in 1983 and owned by SVB Financial Group, grew to about $212 billion in assets before it was closed on March 10, 2023, in what a federal judg...
Tesla
Tesla was formed in Delaware in July 2003, began delivering its Roadster sports car in 2008 and went public on Nasdaq in 2010. It expanded from electric cars into solar a...
OpenAI
OpenAI was announced in December 2015 as a nonprofit artificial intelligence research lab and later added a capped-profit arm that drew billions of dollars from Microsoft...
FTX
FTX was a cryptocurrency exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried and Gary Wang that began raising money from investors in 2019 and was based in the Bahamas. It collapsed in...
NVIDIA
NVIDIA was founded in 1993 to make 3D graphics chips for games and multimedia and listed on Nasdaq in 1999. Its graphics processors became the main hardware for training ...
Twitter / X
Twitter launched in 2006 and listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2013. Elon Musk agreed to buy it for $54.20 a share in April 2022, tried to terminate the deal, was ...
Incidents
11Titan submersible
On June 18, 2023, OceanGate's submersible Titan imploded during a dive to the wreck of the Titanic in the North Atlantic, killing all five people aboard. Debris was ...
LA wildfires 2025
On January 7, 2025, the Palisades Fire and the Eaton Fire broke out in Los Angeles County in strong winds, killing 31 people and destroying more than 16,000 structures ac...
Lahaina wildfire
On August 8, 2023, a fire started by broken power lines in Lahaina, Maui, was reported contained in the morning but rekindled in the afternoon and spread through the town...
Surfside condo collapse
Early on June 24, 2021, much of the 12 story Champlain Towers South condominium in Surfside, Florida, collapsed, killing 98 people. NIST opened a National Construction Sa...
Air India 171 crash
On June 12, 2025, Air India flight 171, a Boeing 787-8 bound for London Gatwick, crashed into buildings in Ahmedabad shortly after takeoff, killing 241 of the 242 people ...
East Palestine derailment
On February 3, 2023, a Norfolk Southern freight train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, and tank cars carrying hazardous materials were involved in a fire. Three days lat...
DCA midair collision
On the evening of January 29, 2025, a PSA Airlines CRJ700 operating as American Eagle flight 5342 collided with a US Army UH-60 Black Hawk over the Potomac River while ap...
Key Bridge collapse
Early on March 26, 2024, the containership Dali lost electrical power leaving Baltimore and struck a pier of the Francis Scott Key Bridge, which collapsed into the Pataps...
737 MAX crashes
Lion Air flight 610 crashed off Indonesia in October 2018 and Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 crashed near Addis Ababa in March 2019, killing all 346 people aboard the two ...
CrowdStrike outage
On July 19, 2024, a faulty content update to CrowdStrike's Falcon sensor caused Windows computers worldwide to crash, disrupting airlines, banks, hospitals and other...
Alaska 1282 door plug
On January 5, 2024, the left mid exit door plug separated from an Alaska Airlines Boeing 737-9 climbing out of Portland, Oregon, and the airplane returned and landed safe...